Web pundits unmoved by Christie

The web’s conservative commentators had already moved on long before Chris Christie came to the podium to rule out a presidential run.

Some were exasperated that it had taken so long to get past the rumors of the New Jersey governor’s flirtation with the race.

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“How the hell is it BREAKING F’NEWS that Christie isn’t running,” tweeted RedState editor Erick Erickson. “Have you missed the 13!!! other notes from him that he’s not running?”

Erickson, writing on his blog later, said that stories on Christie, who repeatedly said he would not run for the White House, were as overblown as reports of New York weather.

“Like the rain and snow, Chris Christie gets all this news because Chris Christie is the Governor of New Jersey where so many of the media types live,” Erickson wrote. “Oh, and just as they are so familiar with them, he is so familiar with them and played them very well.”

The American Spectator’s Aaron Goldstein said Chrstie’s announcement, even in light of his recent reconsidering, was expected. Goldstein has already moved on to a candidate who is already in the race: former Godfather’s Pizza executive Herman Cain.

“Chris Christie’s heart might not have been into being President but Herman Cain’s heart surely is and that has to count for something,” Goldstein wrote.

The weariness came through as some pundits started hammering Christie for taking nearly an hour for his press conference at the statehouse in Trenton.

“The Christie news conference is about to go on too long. After you hit a home run, get off the field,” former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted.

“Is this press conf still going on? my goodness…what is left to say/ask?,” another former White House press secretary, Dana Perino, tweeted.

In the camp of those in the GOP establishment hope for a last potential alternative to Mitt Romney, there’s less fatigue, more panic — though it was addressed in a lighthearted way by Weekly Standard writer John McCormack, when noting that one of the loudest voices pushing the Christie chatter had been his editor, Bill Kristol.

“SOURCES: Bill Kristol strongly considering running himself for president,” McCormack tweeted. In his own post on the Standard website, McCormack suggested that Kristol himself might be the only answer Republicans have left in 2012.

The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis said it might be time for Kristol, along with the rest of the GOP establishment to suck it up.

“Kristol/GOP may have to face a Rumsfeld-ism,” he tweeted. “You go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or may wish to have.”

And then there were those who had had enough of all of it: Columnist Michelle Malkin, overwhelmed by the flurry of tweets about the Christie decision, decided it was best to sign off.